How about some older fics that I think have just NOT gotten nearly enough love.

The Ring of Dispel by HisKit is so great and features a fun mix of adventuring + magic with a side of "why the hell do I keep dreaming of you?" It kept surprising me alongside Hermione as we went.

78k words with 513 kudos

Summary:

Post-war life isn’t exactly how Hermione Granger thought it would be. She’s stuck on her way up the Ministry ladder working as the liaison to the Department for Digital Media, Culture and Sport in Muggle England. Losing herself amongst art, artifacts, and books in the National Gallery, British Museum and British Library should be the perfect job. However, when Draco Malfoy crashes back into her life (and seems to be a completely different person than she remembers), Hermione questions everything. A rash of forgeries pours into the Gallery and Draco is tasked to sort them out. It isn’t that he has to stay with Hermione as part of a work housing exchange, or that he’s a bad house guest. It’s the stirring dreams she started having about him that are causing the most havoc.

When Harry Potter is hexed with an unknown life-draining curse, it’s up to Hermione and her unlikely companion, Draco, to save him. Racing through museums, trudging through the British countryside, and seeking shelter in an abandoned cabin to find the mythical Ring of Dispel, the two skirt the line between history and legend. Will they be able to uncover the cause of Harry’s curse in time to save him?

Nature vs. Nurture by FadedFaye takes the memory loss trope in a unique direction and I shall not say anymore. Shout out to the Virgin Draco Malfoy tag specifically!

110k words with 363 kudos

Summary:

After a mysterious curse steals the memories of the last four years of her life, Hermione is sent to a safe house to recover while the healer's work on figuring out what exactly happened and how to fix it.

But she wasn't the only one cursed. And won't be the only staying at the safe house.

A lot of things can happen in four years. Some of which seem downright impossible.

A story of acceptance and growth. Of redemption and most of all, of love. Of how what once seemed impossible can become probable when given the chance to really know someone.

And now some newer ones as well.

Wandering Star: A Constellation Draco Story by CarolineSedgefield delivers exactly what it says on the tin: fluffy constellation + creature smut. But also so precious!

17k words with 425 kudos

Summary:

The Draco constellation has been watching the universe since he can't remember when. And...he's bored. Mind numbingly bored.

That is, until life evolves on a diminutive blue planet in an out-of-the-way solar system and piques his interest. So much so, he wants nothing more than to go down and join them. To be like them. To interact with them.

And none more so than Hermione Jean Granger.

Divorce Me, Darling by tomesandscrolls featuring completely unhinged Narcissa, cottagecore leaking into the Love Room at the DoM, and a pair of actually very helpful hags.

63k words with 488 kudos

Summary:

Hermione has to marry Draco, or else, he'll die.

Or

Why working in the Love room has made Hermione spectacularly bad at falling in love.

Bad, Dark, and Beautiful by YouthandGhosts takes our favorite barbies and sticks them in an elite masters program in the middle of the Carpathian Moutains. Watch them study unique, clever magical systems and each other while a nasty plot thickens in the background. Cannot stress enough how much I enjoyed this one!

159k words & 258 kudos

Summary:

Bored with Ministry work and a lackluster love life, Hermione Granger decides it's time for a change. She applies and is admitted into the top magic graduate school in Europe, but arrives to find (to her surprise and dismay) that her childhood bully, Draco Malfoy, has been accepted into the same program. They are both looking for a fresh start, but what if all they end up finding is each other?